The Near-death Experience: A Reader

by Lee W. Bailey (Editor), JennyYates (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  1996

  $178.96

  Including primary sources and a range of interpretive articles The Near-Death Experience: A Reader emphasizes multiple approaches to the study of NDEs, examining religious, scientific and psychological perspectives and implications.

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $67.75

  The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins, optical illusions, and convincing hallucinations. Philosophers present empirical analyses and images in archetypal theories, and the symbolic language of comparative phenomenological theories. Christian, Jewish and Mormon responses to NDEs outline the religious perspective, and the mystical and spiritual interpretations of NDEs are also explored.